Thursday, July 22, 2021
Dust
Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882-Winter 1883/84), tr. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019 = The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 14), pp. 394-395 (Notebook 13, number 1):
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You throw dust around yourselves like sacks of grain, you scholars, and without meaning to! Still, who would have guessed that your dust comes from grain and from the golden bliss of summer fields?Friedrich Nietzsche, Nachgelassene Fragmente 1882-1884, edd. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, 2. Aufl. (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1988 = Kritische Studienausgabe, Bd. 10), p. 440:
Gleich Mehlsäcken staubt ihr um euch, ihr Gelehrten, und unfreiwillig! Doch wer erriethe, daß euer Staub her vom Korne stammt und von der gelben Wonne der Sommerfelder?
